Ezra Pound

Book Review: Ezra Pound in “The Bughouse”

For all his literary fecundity, Ezra Loomis Pound was also more than a little bonkers.

I asked the venerable progressive publisher New Directions to send me what it has done for literature lately.

Carrie J. Preston refuses to characterize these cultural exchanges in moralistic or narrowly political terms.

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